Heavens Fall

I wanted to see HEAVENS FALL since some years mostly because it stars Timothy Hutton (one day I hope to finish all his movies) and Leelee Sobieski (one of the actresses of which one day I'll watch all her movies because she has the reputation of a bad actress). Last June I finally saw it and I have to say it, it's one of the best movies accounting for both also for the subject.

The story is about the Scottsboro accident in 1931 when two white women (one played by Sobieski) accuse nine black youths of r**e in the South. One day defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz (Hutton) arrives and he will do his best for defending the nine black youths also with the help of William Lee (Anthony Mackie), and he'll succedd but not after lots of trials and tribulations in the real sense of the word.

The main reason for seeing this is the acting. While Hutton and Sobieski have reputations of having half of their filmographies full of badly rated titles, here they give some of their best performances and they both seemed very natural here. A pre-Marvel movies Mackie, David Strathairn and James Tolkan give just some of their many good performances. It's also a nice 'history lesson' about a lesser known fact, it gives the message of being against racism's prejudices and the ending is some sort of relief for the viewer.

If you stumble upon this movie on YouTube (it's available there) give it a try. Even tho you don't know the subject like me it's still worth a viewing for the aforementioned reasons.

As a featured extra on the film, jury foreman, I very much enjoyed working on the film. Everyone was very very good to work with. I have done theater but this was my first film in front of the camera. EVERYONE was really great!!! Not only on camera but behind the scenes they were all wonderful people. The actors and crew were all very nice, helpful and understanding of the mistakes we made as non professionals. I have worked with other directors and Terry is one of the best.

We here in Monroeville would love to give them a very special thanks for all the things they did to help save the courthouse and the other work they did before and after hurricane Ivan.

I liked the movie a lot, and when I saw that it was inspired by a true story, well that got me thinking: 1 Is that possible that someone even one person could do such a thing without any remorse's? 2 If it's possible than can't we really do anything to stop and prevent such an awful act from happening? 3 And last but not least, are there still places not only in U.S. but on earth were such a thing is still possible? I understand that it's in their culture to HATE the black community, it's their educations foul, from father to son and so on and so fourth,but really,come on wake up... This of course applies to the past but I'm afraid that it's appliable in our present to.

This movie was good overall with excellent performances from the cast and the cinematography was excellent. The script however could have been better as I would have liked it to go into more details about the other defendants but it was well written otherwise.

this film is awesome, the story is breathtaking, the actors wonderful. I saw it at the Midwest Screening and the theater was completely spellbound. It has the heart and soul of "To Kill a Mockingbird". The scenery is so beautiful and interesting. The storyline is inspiring. No wonder Timothy Hutton chose to take this role, his character is smart, courageous and in this current political climate he is a hero for us. The rest of the cast wonderful, realistic and also multidimensional. The historical representation is authentic and yet very creative. You leave the movie inspired. What more can you ask for? Thank you for making such a thoughtful and entertaining film!! I know it will go far.